Government
Plans to make Edgartown’s North Wharf more resilient in the face of climate change received a green light Monday.
Judi Barrett, of Barrett Planning Group in Hingham, last week recommended adding a new town hall department for planning and sustainability and changing municipal leadership from a town administrator to a town manager.
Brothers Paul S. Bangs, James D. Bangs and Charles D. Bangs are asking to create six 3.95-acre building lots and one 1.37-acre affordable housing lot, along with a 1.22-acre right of way, on their late father Stuart Bangs’s woodlot that stretches from Old Coach Road to Nip ’n’ Tuck Lane.
A group of Nantucketers is challenging key environmental approvals for Vineyard Wind, the offshore wind energy farm under construction south of Martha’s Vineyard.
West Tisbury will hold a fall special town meeting in November to consider funding a program incentivizing town residents to build affordable housing on their property, along with a series of minor funding articles.
The Department of Homeland Security Wednesday announced it would be extending Venezuela’s temporary protected status, allowing asylum seekers – including the 49 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard last year – to begin making a living for themselves sooner than previously allowed.